correspondence
Found in 781 Collections and/or Records:
Ray Lung papers
Papers of Ray Lung, who managed the Klamath Indian Management Trust for United States National Bank of Portland from 1959 to 1975.
Hall Stoner Lusk papers
Collection includes correspondence; opinions; minutes; reports; newspaper clippings; speeches on legal cases, political and professional activities, and educational and religious interests. Hall Stoner Lusk (1883-1983) was a lawyer and judge who served on the Multnomah County Circuit Court, on the Oregon Supreme Court, and briefly in the United States Senate.
Lutheran Schools Committee records
Records compiled by the Lutheran Schools Committee of Portland, Oregon, largely as part of a 1922 political campaign to defeat the Compulsory Education Bill, which sought to make public school attendance mandatory in Oregon for children ages eight to sixteen. Materials include clippings, campaign literature, posters, correspondence, ephemera, and voter registration lists.
Jack Lynch papers
Jack Lynch (1896-1973) served as an Oregon state senator from 1943 to 1952. Collection includes correspondence, 1940-1973, regarding advice on campaign strategies to Douglas McKay and Bob Packwood; political speeches; legislative records regarding chiropractors, health professions, and small businesses; newspaper clippings and other papers regarding the "Fugitive Fathers Bill" and a bill prohibiting the sale of firecrackers, both of which were introduced by Lynch.
John Maben diaries and letters
Typescript diaries, December 1926-March 1927, regarding John Maben's life as caretaker of Crater Lake Lodge, including a ski race from Fort Klamath to the lodge in 1927. Collection also includes miscellaneous correspondence, 1951 and 1977.
Gordon G. Macnab papers
Hector Macpherson papers
Correspondence, legislative records, speeches, and other materials relating to Hector Macpherson (1875-1970). Macpherson was a Canadian-American who taught at the Oregon Agricultural College (later Oregon State University) in Corvallis, and served in the Oregon Legislature as a representative for Linn County. As representative, he co-sponsored the unsuccessful Zorn-Macpherson School Moving Bill.
Thomas R. Mahoney papers
Thomas R. Mahoney (1896-1978) was an attorney and legislator, serving as an Oregon state senator from 1939-1952, 1961-1969, and 1971-1974. Papers consist of correspondence, 1952-1974, including a letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower and a letter from Washington Representative Margaret Hurley; newspaper clippings and ephemera; and scrapbooks regarding his political career.
Willis E. Mahoney papers regarding a debt to Scott Bullitt
Willis Mahoney (June 13, 1895-June 2, 1968) was a frequently controversial mayor of Klamath Falls, serving two terms in 1930s. Scott Bullitt was a lawyer, aspiring politician and prominent Democrat who died of liver cancer in 1932. Collection consists of correspondence and other documents regarding a debt of $5,000 owed to Bullitt that Mahoney was unable to pay, and legal action brought by Dorothy S. Bullitt, Scott Bullitt's widow, in an attempt to collect.
Eugene Pearl Marquess scrapbook and correspondence
Scrapbook containing letters from Eugene Pearl "Gene" Marquess to his parents in Portland, Oregon, written while serving as a non-commissioned officer in Company D, 74th U.S. Naval Construction Battalion, during World War II; the unit was stationed on the island of Betio. Collection also includes publication of the 74th CPO Club, with photographs and biographies of members.